Reading Lists

We are asking students to read one book that is related to the grade level theme. There are some suggested book titles below, but students are welcome to choose a book not listed here as long as it connects to their class theme.

9th Grade Theme: ConnectionWhat does it mean to be an individual?What does it mean to be in a community?

11th Grade Theme: AdventureHow is your bookâ€™s adventure similar or dissimilar to your own adventures this summer?What really is an adventure? Do you have to travel to have an adventure?

A Walk in the Woods, Bill BrysonInto Thin Air, Jon KrakauerThe Martian - Andrew WeirLooking for Alaska, John GreenBetween a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron RolstonHitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas AdamsLife of Pi, Yann MartelWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail, Cheryl Strayed

12th Grade Theme: The World Around UsWhat is the same or different about growing up in America or in other countries?How do the cultures we are raised in affect how we react and respond to the world?

Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine BooInto Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents, Jim MalusaWide Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Familyâ€™s Lives Forever, John MarshallAmericanah, Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Kite Runner, Khaled HosseiniIn the time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez

Incoming 7th and 8th graders: Choose one Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz Peak by Roland Smith Uglies by Scott Westerfield Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimon The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Miss Peregrineâ€™s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Heat by Mike Lupica Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Challenge books: The Help by Kathryn Stockett All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr